Oreade

This restaurant is part of Monteverdi—a small resort that’s home to a stylish boutique hotel, a bar with epic views over the Val d’Orcia, and several gorgeous rental villas. It’s the latest piece of a project that takes up most of the tiny cliff-top village of Castiglioncello di Trinoro. Designed by famed Italian interiors maven Ilaria Miani, who created the look of the whole project, the atmospherically cave like (cream-and-white, stone-and-wood) dining room seems almost Greek or Puglian. But the menu is unmistakably Tuscan, with thick cuts of steak, pappardelle with wild boar sauce, and lavender risotto (made using flowers from the bushes on the property) among the top choices. In the warmer months, be sure to reserve a table on the terrace, especially during July's Incontri in Terra di Siena, a mostly classical music festival that mounts concerts in some of the valley's most breathtaking venues, not least of all Castiglioncello’s tiny medieval church.